Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 71 99
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 49 29 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.15% 2.43% 1.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.12% 35.37% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33 17 18
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £50,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.08% -10.61%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.66% -9.25%

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 132 82 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.80% 6.87% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 99 62 74
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £35,785
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.24% -18.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £73,750 £78,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.09% -0.91% -4.35%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 23 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines -9 10 £67,500 -3.57%
Guildford -21 7 £67,500 -25.00% 2
Leatherhead - 6 - - 1
Egham - 5 £65,000 - 1
Reigate -10 4 £60,000 - 2
Woking -21 2 £65,000 -21.21%
Camberley - 2 £52,500 - 1
Godalming - 2 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.20%) IIS
1 5 (10.20%) nginx
2 4 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) AWS
2 28 (57.14%) Azure
3 14 (28.57%) GitHub
4 9 (18.37%) Azure AKS
4 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (14.29%) GCP
5 7 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (12.24%) Cloudflare
6 6 (12.24%) OpenShift
7 5 (10.20%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Firewall
1 3 (6.12%) VPN
2 2 (4.08%) DNS
3 1 (2.04%) 4G
3 1 (2.04%) 5G
3 1 (2.04%) Intelligent Network
3 1 (2.04%) LTE
3 1 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) NGN
3 1 (2.04%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) MongoDB
2 9 (18.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.20%) MySQL
4 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.08%) DocumentDB
7 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.08%) Pinecone
7 2 (4.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) GitLab
2 6 (12.24%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.16%) JIRA
5 2 (4.08%) Claude Code
5 2 (4.08%) MSI
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.12%) Legal
5 3 (6.12%) Retail
6 2 (4.08%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.08%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Developer
1 13 (26.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Lead
2 6 (12.24%) Senior
3 5 (10.20%) Backend Developer
3 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (8.16%) .NET Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Python Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Administrator
5 3 (6.12%) Architect
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (42.86%) Terraform
2 11 (22.45%) .NET
3 7 (14.29%) Spring
4 6 (12.24%) .NET Core
4 6 (12.24%) ARM Templates
4 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET
4 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (12.24%) Node.js
4 6 (12.24%) REST
5 5 (10.20%) Hibernate
5 5 (10.20%) Kafka
5 5 (10.20%) Loki
5 5 (10.20%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.16%) .NET Framework
6 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.16%) Vue
7 3 (6.12%) JPA
7 3 (6.12%) PySpark
7 3 (6.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.16%) PKI
3 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.12%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) IoT
6 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.86%) Linux
2 11 (22.45%) Windows
3 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 23 (46.94%) Agile
2 23 (46.94%) DevOps
3 18 (36.73%) AI
3 18 (36.73%) Microservices
4 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
6 10 (20.41%) DevSecOps
6 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (18.37%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.37%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
8 8 (16.33%) Observability
9 7 (14.29%) Analytics
9 7 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) Python
2 17 (34.69%) SQL
3 13 (26.53%) C#
3 13 (26.53%) PowerShell
4 10 (20.41%) Bash
5 7 (14.29%) Go
5 7 (14.29%) Java
6 5 (10.20%) Bicep
7 4 (8.16%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.08%) C++
8 2 (4.08%) Perl
8 2 (4.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) CEH
1 5 (10.20%) CISM
1 5 (10.20%) CISSP
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
1 5 (10.20%) GIAC
2 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (12.24%) QA
3 5 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (10.20%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (63.27%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) Grafana
2 11 (22.45%) Prometheus
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
4 4 (8.16%) Kibana
5 3 (6.12%) Argo
5 3 (6.12%) Proxmox
6 2 (4.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Google
3 5 (10.20%) New Relic
3 5 (10.20%) OpenAI
3 5 (10.20%) Qualys
3 5 (10.20%) Splunk
4 4 (8.16%) Databricks
4 4 (8.16%) SolarWinds
4 4 (8.16%) VMware
4 4 (8.16%) Zerto
5 1 (2.04%) EMC
5 1 (2.04%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.04%) Huawei
5 1 (2.04%) Nokia
5 1 (2.04%) Samsung